Thanks for sharing this. As women with afro-latino roots I found the article very interesting. I can recall once time in my life, when I was referred to as “café au lait”. Ironically it was not in Brazil (where my father’s family is from), it was while living in Europe. While conversing with a white french woman, I referred to myself as “black” ( I am black and American after all) she told me you’re not black you’re café au lait. I swear I did not know what the heck she was talking about! I suspect that many of these terms that are developed answer the need for some Europeans to label and catergorize everything and everybody. The unfortunate part is we tend to take it and wear it as if it was always there.